She had never given much thought to the devil for she felt that religion was essentially for those people who didn't have the brains to avoid evil without it.

Pius verbally reiterates his commitment to help the Jews but states that he must keep silent "'ad maioram mala vitanda" (to avoid greater evil).

He has given you the light of conscience to guide your moral decisions, to love good and avoid evil.

The teachings of the enlightened Buddha embrace much, they teach much - how to live righteously, how to avoid evil.

"Avoid evil, my son," his father used to say.

In sin, we have the tragic experience of our powerlessness to do the good we would like to do and of our inability to avoid evil.

Catholic apologist Peter Kreeft said, "We are really, truly, objectively obligated to do good and avoid evil."

I)On avoiding evil, success in battles, and gaining affluence, pleasure, happiness and offspring:

When you apply that boredom to order, you are the one who says that boredom is necessary to avoid evil.

This is a paradox; for spiritual death, Augustine says, comes from choosing evil; but even in our "free will" we are incapable of avoiding evil.